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I'll have to play when I get home. Got some serious writing to do too.
While I'm here I thought I'd tell Y'all what happen the other day. I went to the allee coudee at Luffang near Crach, which was one the home of one of the most famous Goddess figurine carved stones of this area, and it was incredible. Bereft of all it's capstones this wondeful dolmen has a bend of almost 90degrees in the passage and is similar in plan to les Pierres Plats nearby. Anyway I had a good old hang there and took some photos and was truly enriched by the sense of place and one could almost see thoudands of years of visitors being equally amazed.
Then I went to another nearby dolmen (Parc something or other). As soon as I found the first dolmen (there are supposed to be two) I was overtaken by an wierd feeling of fear. Nothing like this had ever happened before. It actually took all my strength tho hang enough to photograph the thing before I had to leg it back to the car and drive hell for leather home.
It was wierd cos I was convinced that something had happened to my sick grandmother or something and I had to get to the phone to check.
Now I'm not big on this kind of pschic stuff but that was one of the wierdest experiences Ive ever had at a site.
What do you think of that?

Might be interesting to return to the site and see if the feelings return.

How is the granny, BTW?

I've had that feeling, Mark. It was nothing to do with megaliths, though. I walked into a pub in Glasgow and it just hit me. It wasn't the pub, either, which wasn't at all scary (or shouldn't have been, at any rate). And it wasn't the drink, 'cause I don't drink (maybe it was lack of drink?). After about five minutes I had to leave, and rushed straight to the phone to contact all of my nearest and dearest, who were all fine...

More megalith related is the effect that Elph Cleugh had on me...

http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/browse.php?site_id=4353

like I said in the fieldnotes, it left me feeling out of touch with reality (well, more out of touch than usual!) for a few days afterwards. A strange feeling, and not altogether pleasant. Indeed, I hesitated posting that site here for fear of offending the faeries...

Looking forward to your photos! And I know how it feels to have some "serious writing" to be getting on with - you have my sympathy... its not all frollicking around in the Sunshine, eh?